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Pentacle Memo
A memo (commonly referred to as “the Pentacle Memo”) by Howard C Cross of the Battelle Memorial Institute dated 9 January 1953 noted that at a meeting on 12 December 1952 “our representatives strongly recommended that [the proposed Robertson Panel] not be set up until the results of our analysis of the sighting-reports collected by ATIC were available”.

 

 

 

Sections below

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

Text of the Pentacle Memo, and discussion thereof by Dale Goudie and Jacques Vallee, available online at:

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/pentacle.htm

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/pentacle.zip

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of the Pentacle memo see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 970-971 (forming part of an article entitled “Vallee, Jacques Francis (1939- )”).

2

2000

Dolan, Richard in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 191 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 121-122 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

1

2003

Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 343 (in Chapter 13) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11-13 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997), at pages 20-23 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

3

1997

Marrs, Jim in his “Alien Agenda” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 157-159 (in Chapter 6) of the Harper Collins paperback edition.

3

2001

Pflock, Karl T in his “Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 189-190 (in Chapter 15) of the Prometheus hardback edition.

2

2001

Picknett, Lynn in her “The Mammoth Book of UFOs” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 436 (in Chapter 7) of the Robinson softcover edition.

1

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 131 (in Chapter 10), 254 (in Chapter 21) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

2

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 157 (in an entry entitled “Pentacle”) of the MJF hardback edition.

1

1996

Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 62-63 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition.

2

1992

Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969.” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 280-282 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0618), 290-291 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0710), 294-295 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0712), 203-204 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0802), 312 (in Chapter 15, journal entry for 1967.0908), 321 (in Chapter 16, journal entry for 1967.1027), 338 (in Chapter 16, journal entry for 1968.0318), 427-430 (in the Epilogue) of the North Atlantic Books hardback edition, at pages 284-286, 293-294, 298-299, 306-307, 314, 322-323, 340, 425-427 of the 1996 abridged Marlowe paperback edition.

16

2008

Vallee, Jacques in his “Forbidden Science : Volume 2 (Journals 1970-1979)” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 9, 492 of the Documatica Research hardback edition.

2

2000

Vallee, Jacques in Richard M. Dolan’s “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages x-xi (in the Foreword) of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.

2

1998

Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 121-122 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition).

2

 

Other Material

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